物

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物 U+7269, 物
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7269
← 牨
[U+7268]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 牪 →
[U+726A]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
物-bw.png

Han character[edit]

物 (radical 93 牛+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹手心竹竹 (HQPHH), four-corner 27520, composition ⿰牜勿)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 699, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19959
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1111, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1805, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7269

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 物

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 物
Oracle bone script Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
物-oracle.svg 物-silk.svg 物-bigseal.svg 物-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (勿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脗 *minʔ
吻 *mɯnʔ
刎 *mɯnʔ
伆 *mɯnʔ, *mɯd
勽 *buːs, *mɯnʔ
沕 *mrɯd, *mɯd
忽 *hmɯːd
昒 *hmɯːd, *mɯd
惚 *hmɯːd
匫 *hmɯːd
笏 *hmɯːd
曶 *hmɯːd
淴 *ʔmɯːd
物 *mɯd
勿 *mɯd
芴 *mɯd
岉 *mɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯd): semantic 牜 + phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd).

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • mi̍h/mn̍gh/mih - vernacular;
  • bu̍t - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 物
Mandarin Beijing /u⁵¹/
Harbin /u⁵³/
Tianjin /u⁵³/
Jinan /u²¹/
Qingdao /vu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /u²⁴/
Xi'an /vo²¹/
Xining /v̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /vu¹³/
Lanzhou /və¹³/
Ürümqi /vu²¹³/
Wuhan /u²¹³/
Chengdu /u³¹/
Guiyang /u²¹/
Kunming /u³¹/
Nanjing /uʔ⁵/
Hefei /uəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /vəʔ²/
Pingyao /uʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /vəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /vəʔ¹/
Suzhou /vəʔ³/
/məʔ³/
Hangzhou /vəʔ²/
Wenzhou /vai²¹³/
Hui Shexian /me²²/
Tunxi /mə¹¹/
/uə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /u²⁴/
Xiangtan /u²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /uɨʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /vut̚⁵/
Taoyuan /vut̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mɐt̚²/
Nanning /mɐt̚²²/
Hong Kong /mɐt̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /but̚⁵/
/miʔ⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /u²⁴/
/o²⁴/ 新
Shantou (Min Nan) /mueʔ⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /vut̚³/
/mi³³/
Rime
Character 物
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 物 (60)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 文弗切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mɨut̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /miut̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miuət̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mut̚/
Li
Rong		 /miuət̚/
Wang
Li		 /mĭuət̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi̯uət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 物
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjut ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.mut/
English thing

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 物
Reading # 1/1
No. 13218
Phonetic
component		 勿
Rime
group		 物
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 物
Old
Chinese		 /*mɯd/

Definitions[edit]

物

  1. thing, matter
    物體 / 物体  ―  wùtǐ  ―  object
    動物 / 动物  ―  dòngwù  ―  animal [lit. moving thing]
  2. all of the outside world, excluding oneself
  3. substance, content
  4. Short for 物理 (wùlǐ, “physics”).
  5. to choose, to select
  6. to seek, to look for
    物色  ―  wùsè  ―  to seek out, to scout out
  7. (Teochew) to do
    家己物 [Teochew]  ―  ga1 gi7 muêh8 [Peng'im]  ―  do it by oneself

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 物

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

Etymology 1[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

物 (hiragana もの, rōmaji mono)

  1. thing
    1. (law) a corporeal object
      Japanese Civil Code, Article 85
      この法律において「物」とは、有体物をいう。
      The term "Things" as used in this Code shall mean tangible thing.

Etymology 2[edit]

Derived from mono.

Noun[edit]

物 (hiragana もん, rōmaji mon)

  1. (regional) thing

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

物 • (mul)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 물 (revised: mul, McCune-Reischauer: mul, Yale: mul)
    • Name (hangeul): 물건 (revised: mulgeon, McCune-Reischauer: mulgŏn, Yale: mwulken)
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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

物 (vật)

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